234 African Zoology. 



Sub-genus BcfiALt's — Animals low in proportion to their bulk ^ 

 limbs very solid ; head large ; forehead narrow, very strong, convex : 

 chaffron straight; muzzie square; horns lying flat or bending 

 laterally with a certain direction to the rear; eyes large; ears 

 mostly funnel-shaped ; no hune^t ; a small deivlap ; female, udder 

 nithfourmammcE; tail long, slender. 



Bubalus Caffer. (The Cape Buffalo.) Adult male about 

 five feet six inches at the shoulder, nine feet from nose to root 

 of tail ; horns spreading horizontally ou the head^ in contact at 

 base, eight or ten inches broad, very ponderous, dark coloured, 

 and above five feet from tip to tip, the internal nucleus very 

 cellular, the points turned up ; the incisor teeth loose ; ears 

 Avide, rather hanging ; under-jaw bearded ; back straight ; hide 

 black, almost naked,"and the end of tail furnished with a few 

 distichous bristles ; in the young much black longish hair, par- 

 ticularly about the rid^c of the back. 



Inhabits South Africa. i 



B. Caffer, Sparrm. et Auctor. Cape Ox, Penn. Qu'araho 

 of the Hottentots. Zamouse ? m ^ornow. ; 



Bubalus Pegasus'-^ (The Pagasse.) A young male, the horns 

 lyinof across the summit of the head, the tips turned np ; colour 

 darkish, with obscure transverse ridges; head very short, thick, 

 abrupt at the nose ; foiehe'ad wide; eyes large and full; the 

 neck with a dense mane ; ears long, flaccid, pendulous ; tail to 

 below the houghs covered with long woolly black hair, 

 general colour deep brown ; feet white. 



Inhabits Congo, Angola, Central Africa. 



Pacasse, Gallini and Carli. Empaguessa, Merolla. ' Em- 

 pacasse, Lopez, Rfarmol. Pegasus, Pliny. Wadau-1 Gaptaia 

 Lyon's Travels. B. Pegasufe, H. Smith, MS. * 



Order CETACEA. 



Body pisciform, terminated by a caudal appendage, cartilagi- 

 710US, and horizontal ; two anterior extremities formed like fins, 

 having the bones which form them flattened and \ery short; 

 head joined to the body by a very short thick neck ; two pec- 

 toral or abdominal mamma?; ears vith very small- external 

 openings ; brain large ; pelvis and bones of the posterior ex- 

 tremities represented by two rudimentary bones lost in the flesh. 



Fam. SJRENIA.'. 



Molars with flat coronal ; sometimes tusks in the upper jaw; 

 two pectoral mammae; mustaches; nostrils, properly so called', 

 placed at the end of the muz'zle ; nasal apertures on the upper 

 part of the head ; body very massive. Food, vegetable. 



